#Secrecy Quotes

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.”

“That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal.”

“They love least that let men know their loves.”

“Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.”

“If love be blind, it best agrees with night”

“For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.”

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

“Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.”

“Two may keep counsel putting one away!”

“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”

“If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.”

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”

“I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.”

“A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public”

“Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.”

“We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.”

“You can take better care of your secret than another can.”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.”

“Secrecy destroys accountability.”

“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”

“Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.”

“If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.”

“Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.”

“I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.”

“No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.”

“To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?”

“Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with documents!"”

“I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."”

“The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.”

“I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.”

“Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.”

“Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.”

“Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.”

“As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did itAnd if you did, then that's family business.”

“Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.”

“Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.”

“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”

“Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.”

“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”

“Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.”

“We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.”